Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

We are made kind by being kind.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter